<p>If you grew up a PC gamer or enjoy the hobby as an adult, the chances are good that you've found yourself, hat in hand, attempting to negotiate the purchase of a more capable machine. For more than a decade, we gamers could fall back on the classic "Office Defence," swearing that, thanks to Microsoft, that new CPU, RAM, and GPU were necessary.</p><p>And then, after years of tacit partnership, Micro Bro betrayed us. Windows 7's system requirements were identical to Vista's, as were Windows 8. Office 2013 moved the bar slightly, to the point that a single-core computer from 2001 probably can't run it, but that's it. We were abandoned. Betrayed. Bereft.</p><p>But the fine folks behind LibreOffice want to change that. According to a statement released earlier this week, AMD has joined the Document Foundation and will be helping with a rewrite of LibreOffice Calc to move certain computation to the GPU.</p><p>Ars Technica spoke with Michael Meeks, a LibreOffice developer and distinguished engineer for Attachmate's SUSE business unit, who told them: "We traditionally had a big performance problem in Calc [the LibreOffice spreadsheet application] for large data sets. My hope is we not only eliminate that problem but that we do significantly better."</p><p><a href="http://www.itproportal.com/2013/07/05/libreoffice-embraces-gpu-acceleration-a-fresh-competitive-angle-against-microsoft-office/">Keep reading...</a></p><p>Read also:</p><p><a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2279433/amd-joins-the-document-foundation-to-push-gpu-acceleration-in-libre-office">AMD joins The Document Foundation to push GPU acceleration in Libre Office</a> (Inquirer)</p><p><a href="http://pulse2.com/2013/07/04/advanced-micro-devices-inc-amd-joins-the-document-foundation-89045/">Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) Joins The Document Foundation</a> (Pulse 2.0)</p><p>Explore: <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=d6FdHjpzWnx-skM784Oyffy6hr8bM&ned=us">16 additional articles.</a></p>